While tryg to al wh all the challeng of beg a teenager, lbian/gay/bisexual/transgenr (LGBT) teens also have to al wh harassment, threats and vlence directed at them on a daily basis. LGBT youth are nearly twice as likely to be lled nam, verbally harassed or physilly asslted at school pared to their non-LGBT peers. [1] Their mental health and tn, not to mentn their physil well-beg, are at-risk.
Contents:
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG
- EFFECTS OF TRADNAL AND CYBER HOMOPHOBIC BULLYG CHILDHOOD ON PRSN, ANXIETY, AND PHYSIL PA EMERGG ADULTHOOD AND THE MORATG EFFECTS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN TAIWAN
- THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
- BULLYG AND S LONG TERM EFFECTS ON GAY MEN AND LBIANS
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Gay bullyg, gay bashg happens to the majory of gay youth and n e great harm, cludg suici, but people are workg to stop gay bullyg. * bullying on gay *
Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life, Human Rights Watch said a report released today. The legislature should repeal the untry’s lonial-era laws that crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct and pass prehensive civil legislatn prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. The 58-page report, “‘They Can Harass Us Bee of the Laws’: Vlence and Discrimatn agast LGBT People Sat Vcent and the Grenad,” expos the physil and verbal asslts, fay vlence, homelsns, workplace harassment, bullyg, and sexual vlence that sexual and genr mori face unr the shadow of discrimatory laws. Those rponsible for mistreatment clu people close to LGBT people – fay members, neighbors, workers, classmat, and teachers – as well as strangers and police officers. * bullying on gay *
”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.
Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time. Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs.
Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent. High school stunts who self-intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) report havg been bullied on school property (23%) and cyberbullied (27%) the past year than their straight peers (7% and 13%, rpectively).
GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG
This report exam the shortgs Japane ernment polici that expose LGBT stunts to bullyg and hib accs to rmatn and self-exprsn. Bullyg is wispread and btal Japan’s schools, yet ernment polici addrsg bullyg do not specifilly addrs LGBT stunts, who are among the most vulnerable to bullyg. Instead, the natnal bullyg preventn policy promot social norms at the expense of basic rights. LGBT stunts told Human Rights Watch that teachers have told them that by beg openly gay or transgenr, they are beg selfish and should expect not to succeed school. * bullying on gay *
”He advised an “appropriate fancial award” should be ma to veterans affected by the pre-2000 ban on homosexualy the armed forc, an pennt review has Etherton’s report remend: “An appropriate fancial award should be ma to affected veterans notwhstandg the expiry of ligatn time lims. Any dividual mor cince of gay bullyg or gay bashg may be somethg that someone n al wh but the ma problem wh is s pervasive and nsistent nature to the pot where jur an dividual's self-teem and sire to live. Over 4000 Gay-Straight Allianc are now registered wh the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network and iativ such as "No Name-Callg Week" now exist to put the spotlight on all typ of bullyg and bashg.
Along wh Domi, Guyana, Grenada, Jamai, Sat Lucia—the other five untri the Caribbean that crimalize gay sex—Sat Vcent and the Grenad ntu to be an outlier a hemisphere that has chewed the crimalizatn of nsensual gay sex. Every LGBT person terviewed by Human Rights Watch said they wished to leave the untry immediately or had envisned their future abroad due, part, to the homophobic or transphobic vlence and discrimatn the untry.
EFFECTS OF TRADNAL AND CYBER HOMOPHOBIC BULLYG CHILDHOOD ON PRSN, ANXIETY, AND PHYSIL PA EMERGG ADULTHOOD AND THE MORATG EFFECTS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN TAIWAN
* bullying on gay *
Kyle Wilson, the 19-year-old gay man om Sat Vcent mentned above, tried to file plats at the Kgston police statn about five tim, all related to harassment public spac, but said he gave up when police appeared unwillg to help.
While some LGBT people terviewed by Human Rights Watch did not experience overt homophobia om their fay members, all terviewe said they had attempted to nceal their sexualy om their fai out of fear. Samuel Sayers, a 25-year-old bisexual man om Sat Vcent, said that part of the reason he do not broach the subject wh his parents is that they go to a church where homophobic views are exprsed and that fluenc their views on sexualy.
THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
U_K_ Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U_K_ ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.” * bullying on gay *
Randolph Man, a 22-year-old gay man om Sat Vcent, said that January 2022, he tried to get a job at a supermarket and the person rponsible for hirg told him, “The [other] workers will not be pleased” about havg “his kd, ” referrg to his sexualy, “workg there.
When I started workg, I noticed was very mon that a lot of male attendants weren’t fortable ridg the ont wh me bee they probably have prenceived notn that I was gay bee of the way I drs and my hair, so they sat the back. Edwards endur the gay jok on top of a generally “misogynistic environment” the workplace, the latter of which mak her addnally unfortable and unwillg to pla or “have a eper nversatn” about her male lleagu’ behavr:. After she started disclosg her sexual orientatn at about the age of 14, she had girliends school, but she hid those relatnships for fear of homophobic teasg or bullyg, partly bee of the laws crimalizg same-sex nduct.
In Japan, however, that is often the se for youth who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) or as other sexual and genr mory inti, or who are qutng their sexual orientatn or genr inty. The clu issu of rigid genr stereotypg schools forcg genr nonnformg stunts to curtail their eedom of exprsn; a harmful lack of rmatn about sexual orientatn and genr inty both teacher trag and school curriculum standards; and pervasive homophobic environments across all typ and levels of schools. Embolned by learng about LGBT rights on the Inter and by other stunts at his school g out to him private, Osamu disclosed his sexual orientatn durg a school assembly by wearg a t-shirt that read, “I’m gay.
BULLYG AND S LONG TERM EFFECTS ON GAY MEN AND LBIANS
Effects of tradnal and cyber homophobic bullyg childhood on prsn, anxiety, and physil pa emergg adulthood and the moratg effects of social support among gay and bisexual men Taiwan Chien-Chuan Wang,1,2 Huang-Chi L,2,3 Mu-Hong Chen,4,5 Nai-Yg Ko,6,7 Yu-Pg Chang,8 I-Mei L,9 Cheng-Fang Yen2,3 1Zuoyg Branch of Kaohsiung Armed Forc General Hospal, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 2Department of Psychiatry, Graduate Instute of Medice and Department of Psychiatry, School of Medice, College of Medice, Kaohsiung Medil Universy, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 3Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medil Universy Hospal, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 4Divisn of Child and Adolcent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospal, Taipei, Taiwan; 5Department of Psychiatry, College of Medice, Natnal Yang-Mg Universy, Taipei, Taiwan; 6Department of Nursg, College of Medice, Natnal Cheng Kung Universy, Taan, Taiwan; 7Nursg Department and Center for Infectn Control, Natnal Cheng Kung Universy Hospal, Taan, Taiwan; 8School of Nursg, The State Universy of New York, Universy at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA; 9Department of Psychology, College of Humani and Social Science, Kaohsiung Medil Universy, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Objective: This study examed the differenc the current levels of prsn, anxiety, and physil pa emergg adulthood among gay and bisexual men wh var experienc of tradnal and cyber homophobic bullyg based on genr role nonnformy and sexual orientatn and the moratg effects of fay and peer support.Methods: A total of 500 gay or bisexual men (age 20–25 years) Taiwan were reced om Augt 2015 to July 2017. The levels of prsn, anxiety, and physil pa among gay or bisexual men who had experienced both tradnal and cyber homophobic bullyg (n=109), only tradnal or cyber bullyg (n=173), and neher tradnal nor cyber bullyg durg childhood (n=218) were pared. The moratg effects of fay and peer support on the effects of homophobic bullyg victimizatn on prsn, anxiety, and physil pa were also examed.Rults: Victims of any type of homophobic bullyg childhood had more severe prsn, anxiety, and physil pa emergg adulthood than nonvictims. Victims of both tradnal and cyber homophobic bullyg had more severe anxiety adulthood than victims of only tradnal or cyber homophobic bullyg. Fay but not peer support childhood morated the effects of homophobic bullyg victimizatn on current levels of anxiety and physil pa emergg adulthood among gay and bisexual men.Concln: The rults of the prent study support that early preventn and terventn for homophobic bullyg and enhancement of fay support are sential to rce mental health problems emergent adults among gay and bisexual men. Keywords: sexual mory, homophobia, harassment, genr role nonnformy, sexual orientatn * bullying on gay *
Osamu said that a few days after he me out publicly, his physil tn teacher approached him and said, “I thk other stunts thk what you did was a joke but by even standg next to you, people will thk I’m gay too. Yasuha Hidaka at Takaraza Universy School of Nursg Osaka, who has nducted surveys of gay and bisexual men and boys sce 1999, found a 2014 survey that nearly 44 percent of the 1, 096 rponnts between the ag of 11 and 19 had experienced bullyg school.
Another terviewee relled how health class the teacher had troduced the textbook’s sole passage about same-sex relatns by teachg the word “homo, ” which is often ed as a slur, and remarkg, “I have never heard of the people realy. A universy stunt Tokyo who went to sendary school Niigata prefecture told Human Rights Watch that the lack of rmatn or safe spac for meetg other LGBT people led him to try to enter gay bars durg his high school years. ”[51] In place of formal science and rights-based teacher trag and classroom stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty or exprsn, stunts Japane schools are often left to absorb rmatn, sometim even their ial exposure to rmatn about themselv, om homophobic rhetoric and bullyg.
Nearly everyone Human Rights Watch terviewed for this report said that they heard anti-LGBT rhetoric school, cludg LGBT people lled “disgtg, ” the e of slur words such as “homo, ” and claratns that “the creatur should never have been born.
Do we need laws forbiddg the "gay" sult? * bullying on gay *
[56] A teacher at a Tokyo high school who told Human Rights Watch that schools should never ver issu of sexualy explaed that he heard anti-gay sults “fairly often, ” but that “sometim stunts e ‘homo’ but don’t really mean gay.
“One day a teacher standg a group of other teachers asked me if I like that English teacher so much, why didn’t I give him a romantic gift like cholat, then they all lghed and ed the word ‘homo, ’” he said. [65] Sachi N., a 20-year-old lbian Nagoya who relled beg tght health class that homosexual terurse was the ma e of AIDS and “a very weird thg to do, ” said the impact of her peers’ and teachers’ persistent anti-LGBT rhetoric sticks wh her today:.
A school unselor said the impact of the nstant anti-LGBT rhetoric is vastatg on the stunts he works wh: “The fact that words such as okama or homo are ed as sults, regardls of whether they are directed at LGBT stunts or not, is extremely harmful to kids schools. A gay teacher at a Tokyo high school who has never disclosed his sexual orientatn to his lleagu or stunts explaed that while he thks his supervisors would support him beg openly gay, he has wnsed so much bullyg of gay and transgenr stunts his school that he fears the prejudiced environment would turn on him. Kao M., a 19-year-old transgenr woman Setagaya, explaed how her school’s “firmly tracked” genr segregatn left her isolated: “I expected high school that there would be more mixg of boys and girls but there was plete social separatn.